
The Psychosis of Whiteness
Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World
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Narrated by:
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Kehinde Andrews
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Kehinde Andrews
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Take a step through the looking glass to a strange land, one where Piers Morgan is a voice worth listening to about race, where white people buy self-help books to help them cope with their whiteness, where Boris Johnson and Donald Trump are seen by the majority of the population as 'the right (white) man for the job'. Perhaps you know it. All the inhabitants seem to be afflicted by a serious delusions, like that racism doesn't exist and if it does it can be cured with a one-hour inclusion seminar, and bizarre collective hallucinations, like the widely held idea that Britain's only role in slavery was to abolish it.
But there is a serious side too. Black and brown people suffer from a greater number of mental health difficulties, caused in no small part by living in a racist society. But being Black and brown has itself been pathologised by the young field of psychology. Society cannot face up to the racism at its heart and in its history, so the delusions, irrationalities and hallucinations it conjures up to avoid doing so can only best be described as a psychosis, and the costs are being borne by the sons and daughters of that racist history.
Kehinde Andrews is your piercing, wry and not a little funny guide back to sanity, unpicking the absurd and outrageous lies society tells to keep up the status quo and The Psychosis of Whiteness is your lifeboat out of this topsy turvey world.
Required listening for everybody.
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Good essay on racism
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Great insight into racism and whiteness
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Realness about racism
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Well done
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The delivery of everything within this book and what this book is about is incredibly punchy
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Humor
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Eye opening self reflection
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The Kick it Out campaign, as an example, in football started in 1993, millions and millions of pounds have been spent on this movement, but a banana skin will still be thrown at a Black football player, playing in the highest tier of the sport. That’s because the psychosis of whiteness is one of the most powerful forces on the planet. This book clearly identifies it as so.
The bit about the plantation homes now being used as a wedding venue literally hit me hard.
Would anyone ever consider turning the gas chambers used in the holocaust into an air bnb experience?
What I like most is that this book doesn’t bore you to death with history lessons. The writer uses common knowledge narratives to highlight the sickness, who hasn’t heard of Nelson Mandela?
A must read for any Black person perplexed by todays world and wondering why civil rights hasn’t worked in our favour.
White folks can read this too, I’m not sure what you’ll get from it. Honestly, what you think is not my concern.
Thank you Dr Kehinde Andrews for writing this. It’s important that us Blacks in Britain show the world “we ain’t all stupid”. I think Black American literature and culture dominates the common thinking within Blacks and this needs to shift.
7 hours and 15 minutes of excellence
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Mind blowing!
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